Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-04-16
EASTERN.
The Work of a Destruc-
tive Cyclone in Ohio.
ROBERT GATEWOOD'S SUICIDE
A Newspaper Office Destroyed by
Vandals-The Atlanta's Trip.
Railroad for sale.

ST. CLAIRsvILLE, o., April ia
storm was felt at 3:l5 P. NJ, that ap'
peared to be travelling from the west.
was in the shape of a funnel.shnped mass
of clouds, resembling in appearance a
dense black smoke. The cone was dome
downwards and could be plainly tracked
over its track by the destruction it
left. Houses were demolished, trees
snapped off like pipe.stems, horses and
cattle prostrated and carried bodily hun.
dreds of yards by the gale. The sky
was darkeped with clouds of flying
debris. The storm and its effects showed
all the distinguishing characteristics of
Western cyclones. 1t first struck two ne
brick houses belonging to Colonel Paxton
and Judge Cochran. west of town, and
the frame house belonging to man
named Coleman. All these were com
pletely demolished and the furniture and
portions of the roof and walls scattered
along the track of the cyclone clear to
the end of the town, mile distant. A
large mansion at the corner of Marietta
and Main streets was cut off clean at the
second floor and the walls and roof scat.
tered in fragments. The First National
Bank block and G. Thralt & Sons dry
goods store were almost swept from their
sites, only portion of the lower walls
being left standing. The dwellings and
business block of I. FL. Patterson, druggist;
Geo. Jepson, grocer, and James Patter.
son, dry goods, had their upper walls
and roofs swept off, and the lower part
of the houses were badly damaged by
falling bricks and timbers. The National
Hotel, Mrs. Evans large brick residence
and possibly forty other houses were
less seriously damaged. No casualties
to persons are reported, the funnel.
shaped cloud having been seen ap.
proaching in time for families to take
refuge in cellars. Benjamin Barkhurst's
fine old brick mansion south of town
was totally demolished, likewise the
United Presbyterian Church, large
brick edifce. The loss in St. Clairsviiie
will reach 100000. The Western
Union wires and poles are all down.
Horses hitched in the street were blown
about like chaff, and the vehicles de.
molished.
At Barton's Station, tour miles north,
a new brick house was leveled to the
ground. At Pasco, five miles west of
this city, on the National road, the
brick house of Hinkle was demolished
and he badly hurt. Large tracts of
wood between here and st. Clairsville
have not tree uninjured, while most
of them are fat on the ground. The
town of Bridgeport, just across the
river, escaped as did Wheeling, but q
funeral was in the cemetery on
the hilltop at the time, and carriages
were blown over and carried against
the trees, tombstones swapping
off us they blew over them. Martins 3
Ferry on the o. posite side of the river
at the north end of the town suffered
even more severely than st. Clairsville.
In the town proper seventy.five to 100
houses were more or less damaged and the
loss will reach $l65, 900. James Reilly's
house and saloon were blown down and
Mrs. Reilly was pulled unconscious
from the ruins and may die.
Besides Mrs. Reilly other cas-
ualties reported are: James Reilly.
her husband, a saloon. keeper, who has
both legs broken; Mrs. Wilhelm, collar
bone broken; Mark Davis, of Martins
Ferry Stove Works, probably fatally in
jured. A German lady. whose name
could not be learned, is dangerously in
jured. The river for miles is strewn with
wreckage. The Fairview school-house,
one mile west, was fatally wrecked and
Miss White, the school teacher, badly
hurt. Several families are rendered
homeless. Lafayette Rink was engaged
by the city authorities as temporary
shelter for the homeless, and meeting
of citizens is called for P. NJ. tomorrow
to devise means of relief. Every few
minutes news comes of additional dam.
age in the country, and it is safe to say
that the aggregate loss will exceed one
million dollars.